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G. W. MEPPERD.

WATER ELEVATOR.

No. 366,858. Patented July 19, 1887.

WITNESSES INVENTOR ATTORE g S.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE \VASHINGTON MEFFERD, OF STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS.

WATER-ELEVATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 366,858, dated July 19, 1887.

Application filed November 2, 1886. Serial No. 217.805. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, GEORGE \VASHINGTON MEFFERD, of Stephenville, in the county of Erath and State of Texas, have invented a new and Improved ater-Elevator, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invent-ion relates to elevators adapted more particularly for lifting water from wells or cisterns by the use of buckets, but applicable for use in other situations for bailing out.

liquids or for other purposes; and theinvention has for its object to provide a simple, inexpensive, and effective apparatus of this character which may be operated by a person of ordinary intelligence and will accomplish its work with economy of time and labor.

The invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts of the water-elevator, all as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved water-elevator. Fig. 2 is a side viewthereof, with parts in vertical section, and shows how the raised well-bucket is emptied; and Fig. 3 is a plan view of the bucket-receiving frame.

The elevator mechanism is supported on a suitable frame comprising opposite side posts, A A, which are supported on a base or sill frame, B, and stayed thereto by braces'a a. The frame 13, when sheathed, constitutes the curb of the well 0, over which it is placed.

A drum, D, is journaled by its shaft cl at the heads of the frame-posts A A, and at one end the drum-shaft carries a balance-wheel, E, and to its other end is fixed a chain-wheel, F, over which a driving-chain, G, passes to a lower chain-wheel, H, fixed to a shaft, h, journaled in the frame and provided with a hand-crank, I, by turning which the drum D may be rotated in either direction.

To the drum D are attached the ends of two ropes, J K, to which buckets L will be attached, the bucket on one rope only being shown in full lines in the drawings. The other bucket is supposed to be down in the well. The ropes J K are wound around the drum D in opposite directions, so that a turning of the drum in either direction will cause one of the two buckets (the filled one) to rise while the empty bucket is being lowered to be filled.

In the frame-posts A A, below the shaft d, there is journaled a shaft, m. to which is fixed between the posts a frame, N. which receives the buckets as they are lifted from the well, and empties the buckets when the shaft m is turned by its crank M, as presently described. This frame N is made with a central long arm or bar, a, which ranges transversely of the shaft m and extends each way from the shaft which passes through its center, and two shorter arms or bars, a n, which are fixed to the shaft m and extend in opposite directions therefrom about parallel with the central bar, a. Across bar or piece, it", connects each of the arms a with the center bar, n, thereby forming two pockets or forks, O P, to receive the two wellbuckets suspended from the ropes J K, respectively, as the filled buckets rise from the well. Between the arms n n a there are held fixedly to the shaft or a couple of arms, R S, which are bent downward a little and are tapered toward their outer ends, 1' 8, respectively, to take hold of the chines of the lifted well-buckets.

The operation of the elevator is as follows: As the filled bucket L on the rope J rises from the well 0 it will enter the pocket or fork O of thefraine N, which frame will have the same position relatively to the bucket as the frame has to the bucket shown on the rope K in dotted lines in Fig. 2 of the drawings, and while the frame N is being swung upward by turning the crank M to the left hand the end or too 1* of the arm R will catch under the chine of the bucket, and as the frame is swung up farther the bucket will be turned bottom upward to discharge its contents into another bucket or into a trough set on the frame B to receive the water. \Vhen the emptied bucket L slips from the full y-lifted arm R, this bucket will be lowered into the well to be filled by turning the crank I, and this same motion of the crank will lift the other now filled bucket L, and as it rises into the pocket or fork P of the frame N, or to the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, the crank M will be turned to the right hand to catch the toe s of the arm S under the chine of this bucket and upset it to discharge its contents into a receptacle at the curb, substantially as above described for theother bucket.

The cranks I M, for operating thebucketlifting and lowering mechanism and the bucketdischarging frame, are at the same side of the elevator; hence they may be reached conveniently by the same person, for elevating the water and discharging it, with economy of time and labor.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isa 1. The combination, in a waterelcvator, of a suspended bucket and means for raising and lowering it, and a tilting-fork receiving the raised filled bucket and provided with an arm catching under the bucketto tilt itto discharge its contents as the fork is tilted, substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination, in a water elevator, of a supporting-frame, adrumjournaled therein, a rope woundon the'drum, a bucket attached to the rope, mechanism for turning the drum to lift the bucket, and a fork journaled below the drum and provided with a central arm adapted to catch under the raised bucket resting in the fork to discharge its contents as the fork is tilted, substantially as shown and described.

3. The combination, in a water-elevator, of a frame, A B, a drum, D, journaled therein, ropes J K on the drum and carrying buckets L, mechanism for turning the drum to simultaneously raise one bucket and lower the other, and a frame, N, journaled in the frame A and provided with opposite forks, O P, having central arms, R S, respectively, and means for tilting the frame N, substantially. as described, for the purposes set forth.

4. A water-elevator comprising a frame, A B, drum 1), ropes J K, suspendingbuckets from the drum, chain-wheels F H, chain G, crank I, tilting frameN, having opposite forks, OP, and arms R S, and a crank, M, on the shaft of frame N, all arranged for operation substantially as herein set forth.

5. In a water-elevat0r,. a bucket-receiving frame, N, constructed with a shalt,m, a center bar, 11;, side bars, n n, cross-bars a of, forming forks O Pto receive the buckets, and arms R S, adapted to tilt the buckets resting in the forks when the frame is tilted, substantially as shown anddcscribed.

O. J. SHAPNRD, M. L. JACKSON. 

